GDC 2008: Home Tools and Support: Creating Content for PlayStation Home

On February 21, 2008, Sony will sponsor a presentation at GDC 2008 called 'Home Tools and Support: Creating Content for PlayStation Home.' The presentation will cover an overview of the current Home Tools features and the feature roadmaps for the future. Additionally, they will walk through the process of creating a space for Home and show a guide to creating 3D mini-games within the Home environments. Wrapping up, they will take a sneak peak at Home Interactive Item creation. The speakers will include James Cox, Senior Producer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Also Warren Keyes, Lead Tools Programmer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. All levels of experience are welcome.

Hey guys, as the tipster for this article, just wanted to say my only purpose was to provide some new actual hard evidence for Home. All I see most of the time is rumors and speculation. So this isn't as interesting as a lot of those rumors, but it is hard evidence that these kinds of things exist and will be discussed in February @ GDC.

And i for one after reading this article is now sold that this is gonna be tight. Gotta love FREE stuff that has this kind of potencial. This is what separates PS3 from other consoles, is unique things like this and LBP.

ok back to reality- i hope people can really get creative and create some really cool minigames (il give it a try too) and i hope you can place these in your pad and stuff, even better would be to run poker tournaments in your pad while smoking virtual weed and everyone gets virtually high and starts virtually egging other peoples pads for no reason lol

A Space in Home a best thought of as the equivalent of a webpage, but in 3D.

All the spaces are linked up to each other through 3D connections or links just like in a webbrowser. So if you were going to take a site like gametrailers.com and make a Home Space for the site you would:

* Take some existing or have an artist create a 3D model of some sort of physical room or rooms just like you would in any game development house

* Setup the logic for how the space operates - clicking on certain things starts various things to stream or show, etc

* Setup the connections to the servers that hold the movies and images to stream just like in a normal webpage where there are separate servers for the actual webpage and the audio/video media being used on the site

All very simple to do. For most Spaces it should be not much more work than making a webpage.

Over time there should be:

* Your personal Space that is serving media off your own PS3

* The main Home 'hub' areas which is what most people are seeing right now - the commons area for people inside of Home

* Gaming spaces that have anything from arcade machines, to simple 3D games like pool or bowling, all the way up to essentially custom mini-MMORPGs right inside of home

* Video spaces where you go to watch movies with other people inside of Home

* Clan spaces where clans can go and jump in and out of matches with each other and have their Space decked out in their clan theme

* Store spaces where you can shop for games, demo, avatar/personal space customization items or real world items

* Live event spaces where people in Home can all go and watch some event take place with other people inside of Home

Very, very cool stuff. It should be clear why there are still things to finish before releasing Home to the general gaming public. Also, just like the PS3 firmware, the Home that gets released in the coming months is going to look tiny compared to where it will be five years from now since Sony will be constantly updating the online world. There is soon going to be the constant speculation of Home updates and what they will include just like we have now for firmware updates.

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